Pascal Parisot will perform with Fredda in MoMA’s sculpture garden this summer (photo by Frederique Dastrevigne)
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd St. between Fifth & Sixth Aves.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden
Thursdays in July and August, live sets at 5:30 and 7:00 pm
Free with museum admission of $20 (includes same-day film screening)
212-708-9400
www.moma.org
MoMA’s annual music series in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden gets under way July 1 with Nation Beat, kicking off five consecutive Thursday nights of Brazilian music, held in conjunction with the film series “Premiere Brazil 2010,” followed by four weeks of French music, held in conjunction with the art exhibit “Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917.” The schedule, which includes sets at 5:30 and 7:00, continues July 8 with Wax Poetic Brasil, July 15 with Alexia Bomtempo and Pierre Aderne, July 22 with the Adriano Santos Brazilian Jazz Quartet, and July 29 with Kay Lyra. Holden introduces music lovers to France on August 5, followed by Pascal Parisot and Fredda on August 12, Arnaud Fleurent-Didier on August 19, and Marianne Dissard on August 26. The museum will remain open on these Thursday nights until 8:45. The sculpture garden is such a city treasure that it doesn’t really matter whether you know anything at all about these artists and the type of music they play; it’s worth it just to sit in these lovely environs and enjoy a beautiful evening of art and song.